lumpenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.

形容詞

lumpen

1. Of or relating to social outcasts.
   • 2014, Roberto Bolaño (tr. Natasha Wimmer), A Little Lumpen Novelita (2014 English of 2002 book):
     • A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]
2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
3. Plebeian.

派生語

関連する語

• lumpenism

名詞

lumpen (plural lumpens)

1. A member of the lumpenproletariat.
   • 1993, Yaroslav Bilinsky, “Ukraine: The Multiple Challenges to Independence”, in The Harriman Institute Forum, volume 7, numbers 1-2, page 31:

     In Sydorenko's memorable words: "Our ideals as 'lumpens' are: to find a cozy place, to eat well, to multiply and to die peacefully. A 'lumpen' does not have a nationality, nor does he have a fatherland. Nor conscience. He remains beyond politics and morality."

語源 2

From lump +‎ -en (adjectival suffix).

形容詞

lumpen (not comparable)

1. Lump-like.
   • 1968, Stanley Kubrick, Playboy magazine interview, September 1968, page 94:

     [About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.

   • 2000, Joanne Morra, Mark Robson, Marquard Smith, The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, →ISBN, page 72:

     This something, which is neither body nor machine but interior and alien to them both, pertains to the 'meat' in Gibson's world insofar as the 'meat' - that useless corporeal remainder discarded by the machine - retains an excess that cannot be reduced to the lumpen mass of fleshy existence.

   • 2001, Adrian Beard, Texts and Contexts: Introducing Literature and Language Study, →ISBN:

     Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the mere lumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg.

   • 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 17:

     Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque.

   • 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian‎:

     a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.

語源 3

From lump +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

動詞

lumpen (third-person singular simple present lumpens, present participle lumpening, simple past and past participle lumpened)

1. (rare, ambitransitive) To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy
   • 1959, Harold Uriel Ribalow, The chosen, page 298:

     They had chicken soup with the matzo meal balls a little lumpened by hurry, challah, roast chicken, kasha, honey-cake.

アナグラム

• plenum

動詞

lumpen

1. past participle of limpan